Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 27 Aug 2018 09:39:35 +0200 | From | Boris Brezillon <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: atmel: use struct_size() in devm_kzalloc() |
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Hi Gustavo,
On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 20:09:38 -0500 "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com> wrote:
> One of the more common cases of allocation size calculations is finding > the size of a structure that has a zero-sized array at the end, along > with memory for some number of elements for that array. For example: > > struct foo { > int stuff; > void *entry[]; > }; > > instance = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count, GFP_KERNEL); > > Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can > now use the new struct_size() helper: > > instance = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL); > > This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle. > > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Can we have all NAND controller drivers patched in a single patch instead of having one patch per-driver?
Thanks,
Boris
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